Africa has come a long way since the economic turmoil of the 1980s, the decade of "structural adjustment". Growth has … of diversification in Africa's economies-in contrast to Asia's success stories. Structural adjustment did not change the … manufacturing and service clusters, Africa is yet to follow East Asia in integrating with the global economy in ways that add value …

more detail specific gender-related social norms and how they constrain women’s employment. I present examples of policies …This paper discusses cultural barriers to women's participation and success in the labor market in developing countries …. I begin by describing how gender norms influence the relationship between economic development and female employment, as …

needs to be done to enhance women's access to assets, skills training, and better-quality employment. Further gender … design and outcomes. This constitutes a key challenge in Tanzania, where women and femaleheaded households are constrained by …'s employment policies from a gender perspective by adopting a functional approach. We examine policies with (1) a labour market …

, reconstructs gender relations in the post-civil war context. The current literature examines the role of women in the governance of … argue that women's engagement in Liberian civil wars as combatants and peace activists reconstitute gender norms and gender …This research project traces how women's participation in the Liberian civil wars, as combatants and peace agents …

We investigate the causes of the gender disparity in labour market participation in Ethiopia using iterative …, and by age 22 significantly more women than men have completed high school or tertiary education. From an early age, both … women and men undertake a lot of unpaid labour for their households that tends to be highly gendered, and women's work is …

intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes and norms as determinants of women's labour force participation in industrialized … brief case study of women's labour force participation in India, where the direct link between gender attitudes and women …Women have historically been overlooked in research on social mobility. In contrast, new research focuses on the …

cent of the missing women are 'missing' from Africa. This paper employs a novel methodology to determine how the phenomenon … of missing women is distributed across Africa. Moreover, it provides estimates of the extent of excess female mortality … mortality for women in Africa. …

With the aim of reducing women's greater unpaid care work than men&'s and increasing women's paid employment, this … paper examines the extent to which World Bank investments address unpaid care work. The paper conducts an in-depth gender … Management Program and Niger's Community Action Program target women's needs as caretakers. But most reviewed projects do not …

This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children …